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Benedetto Marcello (opera)
''Benedetto Marcello'' is a lyric opera by Joachim Raff loosely based on the life of the composer Benedetto Marcello Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Life Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of the noble Marcello family and in his composit .... Unperformed during Raff's life the world premiere performance was given in Metzingen Stadthalle, Bad Urach, Germany, October 4th, 2002.A Catalogue of the Music of Joachim Raff Mark Thomas · 2011 Recording ''Benedetto Marcello'' Detlef Roth (baritone), Johannes Kalpers (tenor), Melba Ramos (soprano), Margarete Joswig (mezzo) SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern, Grzegorz Nowak 2CD Sterling 2020. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Benedetto Marcello category:operas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joachim Raff
Joseph Joachim Raff (27 May 182224 or 25 June 1882) was a German-Swiss composer, pedagogue and pianist.James Deaville'Raff, (Joseph) Joachim' in ''Grove Music Online'' (2001) Biography Raff was born in Lachen, Switzerland, Lachen in Switzerland. His father, a teacher, had fled there from Württemberg in 1810 to escape Conscription, forced recruitment into the military of that southwestern German state that had to French invasion of Russia#Grande Armée, fight for Napoleon in Russia. Joachim was largely self-taught in music, studying the subject while working as a schoolmaster in Schmerikon, Schwyz and Rapperswil. He sent some of his piano compositions to Felix Mendelssohn who recommended them to Breitkopf & Härtel for publication. They were published in 1844 and received a favourable review in Robert Schumann's journal, the ''Neue Zeitschrift für Musik'', which prompted Raff to go to Zürich and take up composition full-time. In 1845, Raff walked to Basel to hear Franz Liszt pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benedetto Marcello
Benedetto Giacomo Marcello (; 31 July or 1 August 1686 – 24 July 1739) was an Italian composer, writer, advocate, magistrate, and teacher. Life Born in Venice, Benedetto Marcello was a member of the noble Marcello family and in his compositions, he is frequently referred to anonymously as ''Patrizio Veneto'' (Venetian patrician, i.e. aristocrat). Although he was a music student of Antonio Lotti and Francesco Gasparini, his father wanted Benedetto to devote himself to law. Benedetto managed to combine a life in law and public service with one in music. In 1711 he was appointed a member of the Council of Forty (in Venice's central government), and in 1730 he went to Pola as '' Provveditore'' (district governor). Due to his health having been "impaired by the climate" of Istria, Marcello retired after eight years in the capacity of ''Camerlengo'' ( chamberlain) to Brescia where he died of tuberculosis in 1739. Benedetto Marcello was the brother of Alessandro Marcello, also a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
